104 HETEROMERA. 
A male and female in the Sallé collection; three females only were known to the 
describer. In the male of this species the epistoma is deeply and almost triangularly 
emarginate, and the sides of the head behind the eyes distinctly swollen; the thorax 
in these specimens, as well as the elytra, is slightly marked with red. 
4. Zophobas signatus. (Tab. V. fig. 13, 2.) 
Oblong ovate, black, opaque. Head almost smooth, the space between the eyes and the vertex (in some 
specimens) finely punctured; epistoma truncate in the female; prothorax transverse, the sides strongly 
rounded, slightly narrowing anteriorly, widest about the middle, constricted and sinuate before the base, 
the hind angles acute and prominent, lateral margins reflexed and prominent, and irregularly and coarsely 
crenulate from the middle to the strongly bisinuate base, disc broadly impressed transversely before 
the base, smooth or indistinctly punctured, and broadly marked with red on each side; elytra punctate- 
striate, interstices almost smooth, with four large and broad red spots, one on each side, transverse a 
little before the middle, and another on each side towards the apex ; legs short. 
Length 173-224 millim. ( 9.) 
Hab. Britise Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, 
Janson). 
Four female examples. Closely allied to Z. klingelhéfferi; the thorax more strongly 
rounded at the sides, more narrowed anteriorly, and more strongly constricted before 
the base; the thorax and the elytra more distinctly marked with red. 
5. Zophobas morio. 
Helops morio, Fabr. Gen. Ins. Mant. p. 241. n. 45; Spec. Ins. i. p. 325; Mant. Ins. 1. p. 214; 
Ent. Syst. i. p. 120; Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 160. 
Helops elongatus, Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amér. p. 164, t. 31. £.9; Chev. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1852, 
p. 638. 
Helops nigritus, Oliv. Ent. iii. 57, p. 5, t. 2. f. 26a, 0. 
Zophobas morio, Kraatz, Deutsch. ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 128. 
Zophobas domesticus, Chevr. in litt. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. F. Bates), Tuxtla, Oaxaca (Sallé); GuaTemata, San Gerénimo, 
Coban, Zapote (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van 
Patten).—CoLomBiA ; VENEZUELA; Braziu; West Inprss. 
Labelled Z. domesticus, Chevr., in the Sallé collection. 
Numerous species very closely allied to this have been described by Kraatz; one or 
two of which, to judge from the descriptions, can scarcely be considered more than 
varieties of this variable, widely distributed, and common species *. 
6. Zophobas macretus. 
Zophobas macretus, Kraatz, Deutsch. ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 180°. 
Hab. Mexico! (Baulny); GuateMata, San Gerénimo, Las Mercedes (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica (Sallé, Van Patten). - 
* The greater part of the synonymy given is taken from Kraatz’s revision of the genus (Joc. cit.). 
